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Guns Up, Crypto On: Galaxy Buys 15 Years of Texas Tech Football Naming Rights
Galaxy Digital will rename Jones AT&T Stadium as Galaxy Stadium starting this fall — a reported $70M+, 15-year bet that plants a crypto flag in the heart of West Texas.

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Jul 172 min read


Bybit Plants Its Flag in Jakarta: Exchange Giant Goes Live in Indonesia After Swallowing NOBI
Bybit, the world's second-largest crypto exchange, has officially launched Bybit Indonesia after acquiring a majority stake in local player NOBI — putting an OJK-regulated foothold in a market of 21 million registered crypto users.

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Jul 162 min read


Leaner and Meaner: Polygon Swings the Axe Again as It Races to Close the Coinme Deal
Polygon Labs laid off staff for the second time this year as CEO Marc Boiron pushes to finish the $250 million Coinme acquisition and rebuild the company as a payments business targeting profitability in 2027.

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Jul 163 min read


Burgers, Shakes, and Sats: Steak 'n Shake Says Bitcoin Helped Drive 16% July Sales Jump
Steak 'n Shake credits its Bitcoin payment rollout for another double-digit sales month — but without disclosing how many customers actually pay in BTC, skeptics say the PR may be doing the heavy lifting.

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Jul 162 min read


Fresh Wallets, Big Appetite: Whales Quietly Scoop 50,000 ETH as the ETH/BTC Ratio Wakes Up
Newly created wallets pulled roughly 50,000 ETH off exchanges in under 48 hours while the ETH/BTC ratio climbed 6% on the week — the kind of quiet accumulation that tends to show up before capital rotates down the risk curve.

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Jul 162 min read


Summer.fi Calls It Quits: $6 Million Flash Loan Exploit Proves Fatal for Five-Year-Old DeFi Platform
Summer.fi is winding down operations after the July 6 exploit of its Lazy Summer Protocol drained $6.04 million and wiped out the capital the team needed to rebuild. The app stays live until August 31.

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Jul 162 min read


Base Blinks: Jesse Pollak Hands the App to Cobie and Admits the Social Bet Flopped
Base creator Jesse Pollak is stepping back from the Base app, handing the reins to Cobie after admitting his social-and-creator-coin strategy 'disintegrated completely.' The chain is pivoting hard to trading, stablecoin payments, and AI agents.

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Jul 152 min read


Tradable Is Bringing $1 Billion in Private Credit to Stellar — and Wall Street Keeps Picking XLM's Chain
Tokenization platform Tradable plans to move $1 billion worth of private credit assets onto Stellar, adding to a network that already hosts Franklin Templeton, WisdomTree — and a spot in DTCC's multi-chain plans.

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Jul 152 min read


Saylor and Back vs. BIP-110: Bitcoin's Spam War Has a Hard Deadline in August
Michael Saylor and Adam Back are publicly rejecting BIP-110, the soft fork that would choke Ordinals data on Bitcoin — with miner support under 1% and a forced-activation window opening in early August.

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Jul 122 min read


Hedera's Bonzo Lend Bled $9M After an Oracle Told It a Lie
An attacker exploited a flaw in Supra's on-chain oracle verifier to inflate SAUCE collateral and drain roughly $9 million from Bonzo Lend, Hedera's flagship lending protocol. Millions have already been bridged to Ethereum, and HBAR is sliding.

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Jul 112 min read


Japan's SBI Is Pulling the Plug on Its Bitcoin Mining Pool — 2% of the Network Needs a New Home
SBI Crypto will shut down its Bitcoin mining pool on July 31, forcing miners behind roughly 2% of the network's hashrate — about 20,400 PH/s — to relocate.

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Jul 52 min read


Meme Coins Just Hit Their Smallest Slice of Crypto in Two Years — and Holders Are Walking Away
Meme coin dominance has sunk to 3.7%, its lowest reading since February 2024, as holders exit the sector and capital rotates into utility tokens.

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Jul 52 min read


Vitalik's 'Lean Ethereum' Is a 3-4 Year Teardown — the Biggest Rebuild Since the Merge
Buterin's new Lean Ethereum roadmap targets simplification, privacy, and quantum resistance over three to four years — with Hegotá likely the last hard fork of the current era.

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Jul 52 min read


FIFA Blinked, Polymarket Flipped: Balogun Ruling Sends 'Will He Play' Odds to 97%
FIFA invoked its rarely used Article 27 to suspend Folarin Balogun's red-card ban ahead of USA-Belgium, and Polymarket traders repriced the market to 97% in near real time.

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Jul 52 min read


Daily Digest July 5: Bitcoin Reclaims $63K as ETF Money Finally Flows Back In
Bitcoin hit its highest level in over a month on thin holiday trading, ETFs snapped a 10-day outflow streak, and XRP quietly leads the majors. Plus: what's coming this week.

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Jul 53 min read


Erik Voorhees' Venice AI Hits Unicorn Status With $65M Dragonfly-Led Series A
Privacy-first AI platform Venice AI raised $65 million at a $1 billion valuation in its first outside round, led by Dragonfly — and the VVV token jumped 20% on the news.

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Jul 12 min read


OpenAI Named Its New Models Sol, Terra and Luna — And Crypto Traders Lost Their Minds
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 tiers borrowed three names straight out of crypto's hall of fame and infamy. Traders responded by piling leverage into Terra's long-dead LUNA token.

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Jun 282 min read


Ripple Slips Inside MiCA's Gate Days Before the Cliff — But the License Isn't Final Yet
Luxembourg's CSSF handed Ripple a preliminary CASP approval on June 23, putting the firm inside MiCA's perimeter a week before EU enforcement begins. The 'Green Light Letter' still comes with conditions Ripple has to clear.

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Jun 282 min read


Singapore Slaps Hyperliquid on Its Warning List — and the DEX Says That Was Always Going to Happen
Singapore's central bank added Hyperliquid to its Investor Alert List, parking the largest perps DEX next to Binance and Bybit. Hyperliquid's response: it never claimed a license, nothing has changed, and your funds were always self-custodied.

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Jun 262 min read


Solana Rips 9% — and Its Treasury Stocks Run Even Harder, With Sol Strategies Up 22%
SOL jumped roughly 9% on Friday and dragged the Solana treasury stocks up with it, with Sol Strategies (STKE) spiking as much as 22% to $1.20 and outpacing the rest of the crypto treasury trade.

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Jun 262 min read
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